Could your coffee maker be a weapon of mass destruction? ‘Smart’ appliances could become a national security risk

‘From “smart” appliances as big as a refrigerator to something as small as a “smart” salt shaker, your seemingly harmless “smart” appliances could be a threat to national security.
According to a Daily Mail report, Colorado senators claimed that “smart” devices or devices connected to the Internet could risk natural security.
A group of bipartisan senators is sponsoring a bill to make the Internet of Things (IoT) — devices with computer chips and sensors that are connected to the internet — safer.
Senator Cory Scott Gardner (Republican from Colorado) told CBS Denver that these devices could be used as weapons of mass destruction, as mentioned in The Daily Mail article. “The federal government orders billions of dollars worth of IoT devices each and every year,” Gardner said.
In addition, he said that these are things that can be hacked into, and systems and instruments can be controlled using these. “You can certainly read what people are doing and maybe even eavesdrop on a conversation people are having,” Gardner said.’
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